Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kunit: Provide a static key to check if KUnit is actively running tests

[Daniel Latypov]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 12:13 AM David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> KUnit does a few expensive things when enabled. This hasn't been a
> problem because KUnit was only enabled on test kernels, but with a few
> people enabling (but not _using_) KUnit on production systems, we need a
> runtime way of handling this.
>
> Provide a 'kunit_running' static key (defaulting to false), which allows
> us to hide any KUnit code behind a static branch. This should reduce the
> performance impact (on other code) of having KUnit enabled to a single
> NOP when no tests are running.
>
> Note that, while it looks unintuitive, tests always run entirely within
> __kunit_test_suites_init(), so it's safe to decrement the static key at
> the end of this function, rather than in __kunit_test_suites_exit(),
> which is only there to clean up results in debugfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@xxxxxxxxxx>

I didn't know anything about the static key support in the kernel
before this patch.
But from what I read and saw of other uses, this looks good to me.

One small question/nit about how we declare the key below.

<snip>

> +/* Static key: true if any KUnit tests are currently running */
> +extern struct static_key_false kunit_running;

Is there any documented preference between this and
  DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(kunit_running);
?

I see 89 instances of this macro and 45 of `extern struct static_key_false`.
So I'd vote for the macro since it seems like the newer approach and
more common.

Daniel